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    Unbiased information or advice is fair, because the person giving it is not being pulled to one side — not by their own opinions, not by their own interests, not by what other people want them to say. To understand it you need 'bias' first: a bias is a lean, a tilt, a pull towards one side that you may not even notice in yourself. So unbiased means standing straight, judging what is actually there.

    Unbiased information or adviceunbiased的資訊或建議 is fair是公正的, because the person giving it is not being pulled to one side因為提供的人沒有被拉向某一邊 — not by their own opinions不是被自己的意見拉走, not by their own interests不是被自己的利益拉走, not by what other people want them to say也不是被別人希望他說的話拉走。To understand it you need 'bias' first要理解它,你得先懂bias: a bias is a lean, a tilt, a pull towards one sidebias是一種傾斜、一種偏向、朝某一邊拉去的力量 that you may not even notice in yourself一種你自己可能都沒注意到的。So unbiased means standing straight所以unbiased的意思是站得直, judging what is actually there判斷實際存在的東西。

    The words it goes with are worth memorising as a set: unbiased advice, unbiased information, an unbiased opinion, an unbiased report, an unbiased view, and for people, an unbiased judge or observer.

    The words it goes with are worth memorising as a set跟它搭配的詞值得整組背下來: unbiased advice公正的建議, unbiased information公正的資訊, an unbiased opinion公正的意見, an unbiased report公正的報告, an unbiased view公正的觀點, and for people用在人身上則是, an unbiased judge or observer公正的法官或觀察者。

    Two things often miss. First, unbiased is about fairness of judgement, not about knowing a lot — an unbiased person can still be wrong, they are just not tilted. Second, the strongest use of the word is about having nothing to gain.

    Two things learners often miss有兩件事學習者常常會漏掉。First, unbiased is about fairness of judgement, not about knowing a lot第一,unbiased講的是判斷是否公正,不是懂不懂得多 — an unbiased person can still be wrong一個unbiased的人還是可能出錯, they are just not tilted他只是沒有偏向而已。Second, the strongest use of the word is about having nothing to gain第二,這個字最強烈的用法,是在講「沒有任何好處可拿」。

    If a shop assistant tells you which phone is best, they may be perfectly honest, but they are not unbiased; they get paid either way only if you buy. That is why you so often see 'free, unbiased advice' from consumer groups and charities: the selling point is precisely that nobody profits from the answer.

    If a shop assistant tells you which phone is best如果店員告訴你哪支手機最好, they may be perfectly honest他可能非常誠實, but they are not unbiased但他不是unbiased的; they get paid either way only if you buy反正你買了他都能拿到錢。That is why you so often see 'free, unbiased advice' from consumer groups and charities這就是為什麼你常常會看到消費者團體和慈善機構打出「免費、公正的建議」: the selling point is precisely that nobody profits from the answer賣點正是「沒有人會從這個答案裡得利」。

    The spelling has two accepted forms, unbiased and unbiassed. Unbiased with one s is far ; use that.

    The spelling has two accepted forms拼法有兩種都算對, unbiased and unbiassedunbiased和unbiassed。Unbiased with one s只有一個s的unbiased is far commoner常見得多; use that用這個就對了。

    Its close relative is 'impartial', which is a touch more formal and used more about people and decisions; 'objective' is another neighbour, but that one leans towards 'based on facts, not feelings'. The opposite is 'biased'.

    Its close relative is 'impartial'它的近親是impartial, which is a touch more formal and used more about people and decisions稍微更正式一點,比較常用在人和決定上; 'objective' is another neighbourobjective是另一個鄰居, but that one leans towards 'based on facts, not feelings'但那個字比較偏向「根據事實,而不是感受」。The opposite is 'biased'反義詞是biased。

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組成un-(不)+ biased(有偏見的)= bias(偏見、偏向)+ -ed。'Bias' came into English from a French word for a slant or a slope; in the game of bowls it named the weight built into one side of a ball that makes it curve rather than roll straight — a lovely picture of what a bias does to thinking.

同家族的字

  • biasthe noun at its heart
  • biasedthe direct opposite — the same word without un-

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

unbiasedadj

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    Not biased.

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    Impartial or without bias or prejudice.

    • A self-proclaimed source of mediation and unbiased ratings of millions of businesses across the country, the BBB receives the majority of its revenue from membership fees paid by hundreds of thousands of companies.
    • The methodology, which we have named the Aural-Oral Transect (AOT), is a systematic, easy-to-implement, unbiased way of collecting quantitative data on spoken language use in multilingual settings.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。